accoupler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ku.ple/
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Verb
accoupler
- (intransitive) to pair up, go together, get into a couple (of two things, to become one)
- (transitive) to unite, put together, join (of two things, to cause to become one)
- (transitive, of animals) to mate
Conjugation
Conjugation of accoupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accoupler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accouplant /a.ku.plɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accouplé /a.ku.ple/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accouple /a.kupl/ |
accouples /a.kupl/ |
accouple /a.kupl/ |
accouplons /a.ku.plɔ̃/ |
accouplez /a.ku.ple/ |
accouplent /a.kupl/ |
| imperfect | accouplais /a.ku.plɛ/ |
accouplais /a.ku.plɛ/ |
accouplait /a.ku.plɛ/ |
accouplions /a.ku.pli.jɔ̃/ |
accoupliez /a.ku.pli.je/ |
accouplaient /a.ku.plɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accouplai /a.ku.ple/ |
accouplas /a.ku.pla/ |
accoupla /a.ku.pla/ |
accouplâmes /a.ku.plam/ |
accouplâtes /a.ku.plat/ |
accouplèrent /a.ku.plɛʁ/ | |
| future | accouplerai /a.ku.plə.ʁe/ |
accoupleras /a.ku.plə.ʁa/ |
accouplera /a.ku.plə.ʁa/ |
accouplerons /a.ku.plə.ʁɔ̃/ |
accouplerez /a.ku.plə.ʁe/ |
accoupleront /a.ku.plə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accouplerais /a.ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
accouplerais /a.ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
accouplerait /a.ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
accouplerions /a.ku.plə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accoupleriez /a.ku.plə.ʁje/ |
accoupleraient /a.ku.plə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accouple /a.kupl/ |
accouples /a.kupl/ |
accouple /a.kupl/ |
accouplions /a.ku.pli.jɔ̃/ |
accoupliez /a.ku.pli.je/ |
accouplent /a.kupl/ |
| imperfect2 | accouplasse /a.ku.plas/ |
accouplasses /a.ku.plas/ |
accouplât /a.ku.pla/ |
accouplassions /a.ku.pla.sjɔ̃/ |
accouplassiez /a.ku.pla.sje/ |
accouplassent /a.ku.plas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accouple /a.kupl/ |
— | accouplons /a.ku.plɔ̃/ |
accouplez /a.ku.ple/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “accoupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012